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In reply to the discussion: The New York Times Would Like You To Meet This Totally Harmless Tradwife/Heritage Foundation Hack [View all]patphil
(9,381 posts)Nationwide average is around $300,000.
Single mom's, and there are a lot of them, have to work, which often involves expensive daycare; 200-300 or more a week.
Abortions are illegal in many states, government assistance is drying up, and the cost of living keeps rising.
Being a tradwife only works when your husband is still around and has a good enough job to support the family.
As a result, the percent of US women who never marry or never have children is rising. If the government wants more women to have more children, they'll have to make it financially easier to do so.
Support for children needs to start in prenatal care, and continue through the birth process, up until the child becomes an adult.
Republicans are never going to do this, and yet they want women to do the tradwife thing.
Of course it's more than just having kids, it's about dominating women, and stripping away their rights. My Lutheran brother-in-law had a phrase that covered the republican way they see women, "barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen".